Our Courses

Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector

Do you work for a nonprofit or in the social sector? Are you struggling to solve the problems and meet the needs of the people you serve? Come learn more about how design thinking, a human-centered approach to problem solving, can help you truly understand an issue, generate ideas worth testing and iterate to find solutions that make a real difference. Through global stories from areas as diverse as government, health care, and education, we’ll show you the tools, techniques and mindset needed to use design thinking to uncover new and creative solutions in the social sector.

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• Self Paced
• 8 hours
• English

Design Thinking for Innovation

Today innovation is everyone's business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. And that is why we all need design thinking.

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• Self Paced
• 6 hours
• English

Cultural Heritage in Transformation

Learn how to define, explore, conserve, utilize and manage cultural heritage.

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• 39
• English

Climate Action: Solutions for a Changing Planet

How do we turn commitments to reducing the effects of climate change into action?

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• 35
• English

Sustainable Development: The Post-Capitalist Order

Sustainable development represents a shift from our current system of inequitable capitalism to one that prioritizes prosperity for all, while remaining conscious of its environmental impact and sustainability for future generations. Learn why sustainable development has been adopted by countries and multilateral organizations around the world, and how this approach is transforming the way we live, work, and govern our planet.

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• 24
• English

Equity and Inclusion in Education

The equitable education online course aims to educate, raise awareness and build capacity on ten core aspects of equitable education, why they are important, and what can be done in order to implement them in practice.

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• 15
• English

Drug Commercialization

The University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Drug Commercialization course brings you lectures from both faculty and industry experts. With this course, recorded on campus at UCSD, we seek to share our access to top people in the field who bring an unprecedented range of expertise on drug commercialization.
This course will cover pharmacoeconomic, marketing strategy, intellectual property strategy, portfolio management, managed markets and strategic alliances. It will also have a lecture case study from startup to success.

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• Self Paced
• 13 hours
• English

Advanced Literature Searching in the Health Sciences

Learn the fundamental components of advanced literature searches for professionals and researchers in the health sciences. This course will help you improve the quality and reporting of literature searches for projects that rely on past research.

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• Self Paced
• English

Steps in Japanese for Beginners1 Part1

Learn basic Japanese expressions to survive in Japanese.

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• 24
• English

Leading Change: Go Beyond Gamification with Gameful Learning

Learn the tools to support gameful learning environments that foster personalized, engaged learning in schools.

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• Self Paced
• English

Global Public Health

Understanding the value of health not just as a benefit or right of individuals, but as a global public need.

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• 6
• English

Drug Development

The University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Drug Development course brings you lectures from both faculty and industry experts. With this course, recorded on campus at UCSD, we seek to share our access to top people in the field who bring an unprecedented range of expertise on drug development.

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• Self Paced
• 10 hours
• English

Drug Discovery

The University of California San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Drug Discovery course brings you lectures from both faculty and industry experts. With this course, recorded on campus at UCSD, we seek to share our access to top people in the field who bring an unprecedented range of expertise on drug discovery.

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• Self Paced
• 9 hours
• English

Tech for Good: The Role of ICT in Achieving the SDGs

What opportunities and challenges do digital technologies present for the development of our society?

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• 15
• English

Property Law in a Globalizing Economy: Diversity or Integration?

Explore international diversity of conveyance rules applicable to several transactions, including highly globalized ones, by comparing American law, German law, and Japanese law. Learn the approaches, to what extent, and how international harmonization should be achieved to take part in such an open-ended discussion in the future.

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• 39
• English

Pre-University Chemistry

Prepare for university by reviewing the science and technology of chemistry. Become familiar with the way chemistry and chemistry-related topics are taught at university level.

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• 70
• English

A System View of Communications: From Signals to Packets (Part 2)

Explore the tradeoffs in designing communication systems like mobile phones, and the engineering tools to handle them.

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• 15
• English

Optimization: principles and algorithms - Linear optimization

Introduction to linear optimization, duality and the simplex algorithm.

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• 40
• English

Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment and Violence

Learn how to become an active bystander and address sexual harassment and violence - in the workplace, at home, and in wider social relations.

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• 84
• English

Networking and Storage Essentials

Become proficient in the fundamentals of computer networking and storage and gain the skills to diagnose, repair and maintain computer networks and storage.

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• 15
• English

Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage

Explore the technology that can provide a long-term solution to protect our atmosphere from an excess of carbon dioxide, in the context of global energy, our use of fossil fuels, and climate change.

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• 8
• English

Containerized Applications on AWS

Learn how to utilize container technologies and AWS services to modernize your applications.

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• 6
• English

Breeding Programme Modelling with AlphaSimR

Breeding programmes are key to the genetic improvement of plant varieties and animal breeds used in agriculture. This unique course shows how to model an existing or new breeding programme and the evaluation of alternative breeding scenarios.

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• 13
• English

INSPIRE: Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children

Learn about evidence-based strategies and approaches to preventing and responding to violence against children. Whether you are a practitioner, policymaker, funder or someone who cares deeply about this issue, this course will strengthen your knowledge about forms of violence against children, how societal, community, and family-level factors affect violence, and how the evidence-based INSPIRE framework and strategies can help to end violence against children.

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• 15
• English

Attaining Higher Education

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• 48
• English